I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.

Wednesday

babynames redux - the boy dilemma

Yeah, clearly this topic is on my mind. And I know we have a while, but I enjoy thinking about it (just ask poor Jon, who is being harassed incessantly on the topic by me).

We have several girl names we like a lot (his favorite, Charlotte, has become one of my favorites as well. See how open minded I am?)

But boynames are gonna be an....issue.

Maybe there are some we just aren't thinking of.

So give me your ideas. Really, my only criteria is that the name has to flow nicely with those of sibs Henry, Jane and Elliot.

So comment below with babyboynames. Maybe you have ideas we would never even have considered...

boy names stumped us too. when we were thinking about another infant, (we aren't any more -- if another boy comes into our family, he will already have a name), he would have been either jonathan (after julie's recently deceased uncle, whose middle name was john and my late uncle, whose nickname was johnny) and we would call him nathan. or else isaiah, after the prophet (my son is micah, after micah 6:8). i like a lot of the old fashioned names that are coming back -- like charles/charlie, james/jim/jamie, michael/mike/micky. i've even seen felix and oscar lately, and i think they're great! if you're irish, i like william with the nickname liam, or seamus for james.

Good Anglo-Saxon male names: Charles, Matthew, Adam, David, Daniel, Richard, Thomas. What's wrong with Samuel Anderson, like you mentioned previously? We have a Samuel Saunders (maternal family name as the middle name). We call him 'Sandy'.

OliverOwenFranklinEdwinGrahamAugustCyrilRichardFrederickQuinnLeanderClarenceVincentJack (I know, overused. But it still belongs on the list.)CliveOscarGeorgeFrancisLeo or LeonardEugeneTheodore

Well Jon, if you've already tried the Social Security list, then the next step is clearly to celebrate All Saints Day (Nov 1) by taking a traditional trip to a very old cemetary. And take notes from the headstones.

You might also consider buying a copy of Butler's Lives of the Saints. Some very good finds there, too. Who knew The Rock was named after a saint?

Have you tried the baby name voyager? It is very cool. You can use it to look for names with beginning sound that you like. Also, the person who came up with it wrote a book as well, and one of the features of the book is that it suggests names for brothers and sisters, i.e., if you look up the names of your current kids, you'll find names the author thinks would go well with what you already have.

I like traditional names for boys as well. I have a William, but that is the #1 boy name in the South, so I wouldn't go there if I were you. I've also got a Theodore, which I think goes very well with your boy names, and you can call him Teddy (what we call ours)or Theo (what he has them calling him at school now!). If we have another boy he will be James and called Jamie.

Hmm . . . Oliver would be really good, I think. It's old-fashioned, but not overused. I think that's the kind of thing you are looking for, yes? What about Simon? That goes well with Jane--very English.

Isn't it fun thinking about names? We always start doing that almost right away!

I think something "British" sounding yet simple, like Henry, Jane and Eliot. I've this book in front of me, "Stuart England" and a look through its name index suggests all men at the time were named:James Thomas CharlesFrancisWilliamStephenHugh

You can look far back in your family tree for interesting names from your ancestry. You'll probably find all sorts of cool names from a century or two ago. Also, check out this fun link to check on popularity of names:http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html